Today, I’ll take a look at build cache that is coming to Android development toolbelt in the future. This can potentially have a great impact on improving build times. Which is universally a good thing, since no one likes to spend more time waiting for the project to build.

Not long ago, I inherited a bunch of spaghetti code sitting inside a big legacy enterprise application, and I found myself hoping that everything I needed to deal with was already there (and hopefully working properly). But when I needed to change something, how could I tell what will be affected? The side effects of any changes I make should be clear from the beginning. If only I could do unit tests AND see the ripple effect across the code too…

Well, I can. It’s called Mocking, and it lets you create alternative realities for your application to play through, without having any side effects or consequences in reality.

This post continues our series of one-page printable cheat sheets about Java and related technologies that we’ve been producing for almost a year now.
Today it’s all about Java generics. The feature was added to Java 10 years ago, and even today it still confuses many Java developers.

Every webapp in development holds a great supply of surprises for the developer. When something is behaving unexpectedly, there are two ways to troubleshoot it: either add debug logging or attach a remote debugger. Both have their pros and cons. Which is the lesser of the two evils? What compromises are you willing to make? If only there was a way to get the best of both worlds. Now there is. The Logs view is the newest addition to XRebel’s issue-finding capabilities.

Two years have passed since the release of JRebel 6. Throughout this time, two JRebel agents have been available in parallel (JRebel Agent and Legacy Agent). Now that the new JRebel Agent has fully matured, we are making it the default. JRebel’s support for remote servers has also been significantly enhanced. In addition, we have updated integrations with many of the frameworks and application servers to support their latest versions.

When upgrading to JRebel 7 from a previous version, check out our upgrade guide.

What do buying a fire extinguisher and not smoking inside the house have in common? Both are aimed at mitigating the effects from a potential fire. The important difference is that one measure is proactive, and the other is reactive. Same applies to performance: monitoring reacts to damage and testing prevents damage.

This post continues with the series of the cheat sheets that we’ve been producing all year. And this time it’s all about Spring Framework annotations. We look at the annotations that make Spring a flexible, but at the same time a very stable choice of a framework.

You can find tons of tutorials about how you should use Spring — its configuration and a myriad of excellent Spring projects on the internet. We, however, want to provide a one-page reference for the most commonly used annotations. With this, you will always remember which annotations go where. Here we go!

Today, I’m excited to announce a significant milestone in the development of JRebel for Android. JRebel for Android has reached the 2.0 status. This is the first major release we have introduced since the release of JRebel for Android v1.0 in December last year.

We have been listening to your feedback and turned it into features that will help JRebel for Android make your development process faster and simpler. Literally, hundreds of fixes and improvements have been added in the v2.0 release.

In this post, I want to shed some light on the main features we’ve added since v1.0 and why we think it’s a really big deal.

A couple of months ago, we released our annual Developer Productivity Report, where we looked at the results of asking Java developers about what tools and technologies they use. Among all kinds of cool findings, like what IDE is the most popular, whether microservices offer a salvation from solving hard problems, and so on, we got the data about the web frameworks our respondents use.

We saw that both Spring and Java EE are pretty popular choices, and the general consensus is that both are quite excellent. That realization made us ask a deeper question. What components of the platform do you actually use?